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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dmwnc1959: [QB] I love going down to the tracks and watching the trains blow past me at warp speed (not really 'wrap speed' but still looks fast when sitting in my old car). And I love taking my 8$ 'disposable camera of the week' and trying to take pictures that would match the ones I took with my $1000 SONY Mavica I had five years ago. And I know living in a small rural town like Salisbury in North Carolina has none of the security threats and problems of the big cities like LA and Chicago. Heck, the noisiest thing in my neighborhood are the crickets, and I can still pass a Summers night watching the cats chase fireflies across the front yard, and when I look up, I see a sky FILLED with a thousand stars. And the folks down at the Amtrak station know me by my first name...David. The conductors would recognize me as I board the train and say "Welcome back Mr. Walker" and I would smile the smile of small town America. And I always ask first, no matter what station, if it is OK to take pictures of the 'pretty trains' as they sit and wait for their load of anxious passengers. And as I leave the station, with my $8 camera in hand headed for Eckerds to get it developed, and head back through downtown past the statue of the Guardian Angel and the Fallen Soldier that graces our center city, I know that I have in no way stirred suspicions among those who have greeted me, waived to me from the train, chatted it up with me at the station, nor the passengers that departed for destinations unknown. That is why I feel that I can continue my 35 year old hobby of photography, and walk away with a clean conscience. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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